Perspectives on Object-Centered Learning in Museums 1th edição

Publisher Marketing: Originating in a recent NSF conference held at the University of Michigan, this book examines ideas about how children interact with objects and through that interaction acquire new understandings, attitudes and feelings. Although museum education provides the primary setting within which object-centred learning is explored, the analyses apply to a wide range of learning environments. Despite the demonstrated importance of object-centered learning for both academic and life-long learning, there has been little psychological research on the topic. Review Citations:

Choice 02/01/2003 pg. 1035 (EAN 9780805839272, Hardcover)

Contributor Bio:  Paris Erna Paris is the winner of ten national and international writing awards, including the Canada-U. S. White Award for journalism, a gold medal from the National Magazine Awards Foundation, and four Media Club of Canada awards for feature writing and radio documentary. She is the author of five previous acclaimed books of literary non-fiction, most recently "The End of Days: Tolerance, Tyranny and the Expulsion of the Jews from Spain, which won the 1996 National Jewish Book Award for History. She lives in Toronto. Contributor Bio:  Schauble, Leona Schauble, Learning Research and Development Center, University of Pittsburgh, PA. Contributor Bio:  Wertsch, James V James V. Wertsch is Professor in Arts and Sciences at Washington University in St. Louis. After finishing his Ph. D. at the University of Chicago in 1975, Wertsch was a postdoctoral Fellow in Moscow at the USSR Academy of Sciences and Moscow State University. His research is concerned with language, thought, and culture, with a special focus on collective memory and national identity. Wertsch is the author of more than 200 publications appearing in a dozen languages. These include the volumes Voices of the Mind (1991), Mind as Action (1998), and Voices of Collective Remembering (2002). Contributor Bio:  Bain, Robert, Etc ROBERT BAIN is Professor of English and Bowman and Gordon Gray Professor of Undergraduate Teaching (1987-90) at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill.